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<blockquote data-quote="scruffygrognard" data-source="post: 4609818" data-attributes="member: 8313">I've had this problem in the past, and am kinda going through it now.&nbsp; One player in our group insists on playing every character as a joke character... to the point where he creates &quot;broken,&quot; often ineffectual, characters in order to point out flaws in the game.&nbsp; What's worse is that he insists on playing such characters even though they undermine the game, particularly when his character refuses to enter dangerous situations because he is ill-prepared to face them and, as such, has no motivation to &quot;adventure&quot;.One player left the group because of it and I won't GM a game with him in it... because it becomes a test of wills every time we play.&nbsp; Sadly, in the real world, he's a really nice guy whom most of us have known and gamed with for many years.Our solution has been to tell him how we feel about it when it REALLY gets out of control.&nbsp; His response has been to withdraw from the game and avoid contact with us for a month or two each time this happens (about once per year). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="scruffygrognard, post: 4609818, member: 8313"] I've had this problem in the past, and am kinda going through it now. One player in our group insists on playing every character as a joke character... to the point where he creates "broken," often ineffectual, characters in order to point out flaws in the game. What's worse is that he insists on playing such characters even though they undermine the game, particularly when his character refuses to enter dangerous situations because he is ill-prepared to face them and, as such, has no motivation to "adventure". One player left the group because of it and I won't GM a game with him in it... because it becomes a test of wills every time we play. Sadly, in the real world, he's a really nice guy whom most of us have known and gamed with for many years. Our solution has been to tell him how we feel about it when it REALLY gets out of control. His response has been to withdraw from the game and avoid contact with us for a month or two each time this happens (about once per year). :confused: [/QUOTE]

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